The Taliban’s capture of Kabul has heightened mutual animosity between the United States and Pakistan, two ostensible partners who have clashed over Afghanistan. However, both parties continue to rely on one another. With the Biden administration searching for alternative ways to combat terrorist threats in Afghanistan, it is likely to come back to Pakistan, which…
Yum China Holdings, the parent company of KFC, is focusing its outlet development efforts in China on smaller areas, where demand has rebounded far faster from the epidemic than in the country’s larger cities, its CEO said on Thursday. With over 11,000 locations, the owner of the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell brands in…
After a two year probe, the antitrust authority of India has found that Google had abused the dominant position of its Android operating system in the country by using its “huge financial muscle” to illegally supress competition, claimed media reports based on the probe findings. The report which was prepared by the Competition Commission…
The Swiss-based soft drinks bottler Coca Cola HBC has agreed to invest to take over a majority stake in Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt in a deal worth $427 million. Coca Cola HBC earlier reported a large growth in its profits for the first half of the year, The investment will be made through a…
Amazon.com Inc got a major victory in India’s top court in relation to a dispute wherein the e-commerce giant sought to prevent its partner Future Group from selling $3.4 billion in assets to Amazon’s rival Reliance Industries. According to analysts, this latest tussle that also involves two of the richest individuals of the world –…
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear watchdog of the United Nations, will never be handed over images from inside of some Iranian nuclear sites because of the expiry of a monitoring agreement with the agency and Iran, the speaker of country’s parliament said on Sunday according to reports in the Iranian state media. “The…
According to a new study, the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 might have started spreading in China as early as October 2019 which was two months prior to the detection of the first case of the disease in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Such an estimate was made using methods from conservation science by…
Authorities of a prison in Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday found the founder the antivirus software company McAfee – John McAfee, dead in his cell. It is suspected that he had committed suicide after the National Court of Spain approved his extradition to the United States where he was slated to face criminal tax evasion charges,…
The large majority of cryptocurrency firms are not meeting Britain’s anti-money laundering and financing rules, said the country’s financial watchdog warning that an unprecedented number of them have withdrawn applications to register with it. In a statement, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said, it would extend the date of its temporary registrations regime from July…
The findings of a World Health Organization draft report says that the an animal was the probable mode of transfer of the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 and its spread had possibly started not more than a month or two prior to the first cases were noticed in December 2019 in Wuhan city of China.…
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